I'm making a language

So, I thought it would be shiny to have an IC language that isn't spanish, so I've been picking and poking at coming up with a language.

Minmatar: Northern Regional Sebiestor

IC Stuff:North Region Sebiestor is a matari Heritage Language. One of the only languages to survive mostly intact from before the day of darkness, it is still spoken in many communities across Mikramurka, and is one of the five dialects used to construct Modern Standard Matari.

Pronunciation guide:THIS NEEDS WORK POKE ME ABOUT INCONSTANCIES

a = long a sound as in ateaa = long and then short sound modulated, (no english equivalent) ae = short a sound as in bati = short i sound as in sickii = long i sound as in skye - short e sound, as in eggee = long e sound, as in screen u = short u sound as in underuu = long ooo sound, as in look (vowel)i = long i sounduo = oohoh soundy = eyh sound

Past tense:to have done: -iliI have done: -ilyou have done: -ulyou all have done: -uolwe have done: -ielthey(singular) have done: -elthey(plural) have done: -eel

future tense:to be going to do: -iriI am going to do: -iryou are going to do: -uryou all are going to do: -uorwe are going to: -ierthey(singular) are going to do: -erthey(plural) are going to do: -eer

noun tense:this is a special case, where it is specifically referring to the verb as a noun, for instance, guidance, would be the noun created from the verb 'to guide' this is constructed by dropping all the verb endings.

construction of sentence's verb agreements:

[object noun][subject noun][verb]so for example,you I thankinstead of thank you

place names end in ii or R, this is used to indicate that it is a location. these can be added to a noun to indicate the noun in question is a location

Injection Words, these are simple starting words that add certain meanings to a sentence. It is assumed that the rest of the sentence relates to the injection word, many but not all of them are questions:

you can use it independently, or you can attach to the end of it, any combination of nouns and adjectives, connected by a ' for each link, allowing a pronoun to be either very simple or very complex. Oftentimes it will grow in complexity with the accomplishments of the person being described by it.

Possession:Unlike english where possession indicates ownership, in NRS, it simply indicates relationships between objects. this is shown by the 'ta' which when standing alone means, 'of' so instead of saying 'my mother' it would be 'mother of I' or in NRS, 'Mati ta ima'

ta: ofna: for

its still very much a work in progress, and ideas are welcome. As we come up with things, I'll update this post to add the new information.

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Last edited by Kikia Truzhari on Wed Apr 11, 2012 11:05 am; edited 59 times in total

I actually had a non-EvE idea a little while ago, but it would work wonderfully for the Tribes.

Essentially, the idea is for a pictographic written language (kind of like tattoos or heiroglyphs), but with the added 'twist' that verb tenses, gender references, etc all vary based on the individual glyph's position in a sentence.

For example, the pictograph that indicates the speaker's gender could apply to either gender, depending on where in the sentence it was located. So, '(He's going) to the store' could be turned into '(She's coming from) the store'.

As for the spoken language -- looks good! I'll see if I can come up with some metaphor and idiom to make it a more 'organic' language, though that'll take a while (I'll need to read a lot of Matari Chronicles and lore to find things that would work)